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our victories

At Carranza LLP, we understand how difficult recovering from a serious injury can be and the overwhelming impact it can have on your life, your family and your financial situation.

Our dedicated and compassionate personal injury lawyers work tirelessly to ensure you and your family are able to focus on your recovery while we work to get you the services and compensation you deserve.

Because of our unique understanding of culture and recovery, we have been able to make a big difference in the lives of our clients by securing much needed and deserved benefits, including financial assistance, rehabilitative services and just settlements to help make their journey to recovery a little easier.

Below are just a small sample of our track record of client victories.

M.B. was injured in a car accident in January 2008. He suffered head and other injuries and was taken to hospital by ambulance. After the accident he complained of headache, neck, leg and lower back pain.
He claimed his insurer was unreasonably withholding Income Replacement benefits and was asking for interim benefits to be paid to him pending the resolution of the dispute due to his severely deteriorating financial situation and his families need for support.

In October 2000, T.N. was involved in a serious car accident that resulted in her suffering a catastrophic brain injury.
Due to her debilitating injuries, she required help with daily living activities and could not live independently. Her insurer did not explain what services were available to her or pay for what she was entitled to. Her first lawyer did not dispute any attendant care benefits for several years. For half a decade, T.N. continued to suffer from anxiety, insomnia and loss of appetite. T.N.’s doctor recommended she get a second legal opinion. That`s when T.N. turned to Carranza LLP.

M.M. was hit by a car at the age of five and suffered multiple injuries. A Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS), a commonly used scoring system that describes the level of consciousness in a person following a traumatic brain injury, was taken by paramedic’s minutes after the accident and she received a score of 9 indicating a moderate injury. Her Insurer argued there was no evidence of brain injury and the low initial GCS score of 9 was caused by a hemodynamic instability (cardiovascular impairment caused by abnormal or unstable blood pressure).

T was involved in a very serious accident as a back seat passenger. His injuries are "catastrophic" and included serious orthopaedic injuries as well as a traumatic brain injury. T attended two medical examinations at the request of the Defendant, however one month before the pre-trial, the Defendant requested that T attend two more defence medicals.

Mr. Jaggernauth sustained multiple serious injuries after being struck by a car. Since the accident, he has not been able to return to work and suffers from chronic pain. Mr. Jaggernauth made a claim for accident benefits from his own insurer and while they paid some ongoing benefits, the insurer argued that he did not suffer from a "catastrophic impairment" as defined in the Statutory Accident Benefits Schedule.

S.D. was terminated from her job after being in a car accident. She came to Carranza without any work and any entitlement to disability benefits. Anu negotiated fair compensation for the loss of her job, monies for medical benefits and reinstatement of long-term disability benefits.

G.P. was injured on his way home from work. He was unable to return to his physically demanding job, and due to his lack of English and marketable skills, he was unable to find a job of comparable pay. He was denied accident benefits including income replacement benefits and medical and rehabilitation benefits..

Ms. Branco was injured by a car and despite rehabilitation, due to her arm and shoulder pain she was unable to continue in her job as a dental assistant. Her insurer did not make an offer to settle and the case went to trial.

For over a decade, the indigenous Maya peoples of southern Belize have been seeking legal recognition of their customary land rights. Moira Gracey coordinated the legal team representing Maya villages before the Belizean courts.

A newcomer to Canada, AJ was on her way to her first day of work when she was struck by a car. She had a previous history of complicated back surgeries in her home country many years ago. The Insurer refused to pay compensation for her loss of earnings because it was their view that the victim did not have any Canadian work experience and her injuries were related to her back problems before the accident.

Ms. Atwal was injured in a car accident, and sued in Superior Court the driver of the car and the company that owned the car. A year and a half after issuing the lawsuit, it was discovered that the defendant driver of the car was working at the time of the accident.

A.N. was injured in a car accident and through his insurer received statutory accident benefits and income replacement benefits. His income replacement benefits were terminated by his insurer and they tried to force him to be assessed by one of their doctors shortly before an arbitration hearing about his entitlement to Income Replacement Benefits.

AV was injured in two separate car accidents over the course of a year. The adjuster for the insurance company had suspended her benefits and refused to reinstate them unless the she attended medical examinations. The arbitrator found that by requiring such a commitment, the insurer abandoned the proper process contemplated by the law.

S.S. was injured as a passenger in a van. She suffered from back pain, anxiety, depression and claustrophobia preventing her from using public transit and going to job interviews. She also suffers from poor concentration and memory issues since the accident. Her insurer argued that she was capable of sitting, typing, talking on the phone, filing, and other physical aspects of an office job and therefore not entitled to further benefits.

Despite having sustain only soft-tissue injury with no fracture, a Judge of the Superior Court of Justice found that this client met the threshold which required permanent and serious impairment of an important bodily function.

Ms. Clark came to us when the two-year limitation period for filing a lawsuit for her accident had already expired. Usually, this would result in a complete loss of her right to recover compensation from the person at fault for the accident. Kelley Campbell successfully convinced the judge that an exception to the rule applied to this case.

Ms. Garcia was insured as a passenger in multiple car accidents. The Arbitrator accepted her disability and her insurer was ordered to pay a higher amount of loss of earning capacity to his client, despite a finding that she was not a credible witness.

After an accident, a mother was rendered quadriplegic and her son suffered serious brain injuries. Lawyer obtained accident benefits for the mother including the purchase and building of a new wheelchair accessible home and a significant settlement for income loss to a minor for her son.